Advancing climate ambition: How city-scale actions can contribute to
... as the primary heat source (where heat is needed), lowering energy consumption for heating to just a small fraction of current demand. In some areas, these reductions could also be achieved through district heating systems, if they are powered by low-GHG biomass or waste heat.6 Lastly, both the refe ...
... as the primary heat source (where heat is needed), lowering energy consumption for heating to just a small fraction of current demand. In some areas, these reductions could also be achieved through district heating systems, if they are powered by low-GHG biomass or waste heat.6 Lastly, both the refe ...
Strategy and Action Plan - Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism
... This report is the second of four outputs in this initiative of CRFM and FAO on ‘Climate change adaptation and disaster risk management in fisheries and aquaculture in the CARICOM region’. The aim is to develop a strategy and action plan for integrating DRM, CCA and fisheries and aquaculture, with a ...
... This report is the second of four outputs in this initiative of CRFM and FAO on ‘Climate change adaptation and disaster risk management in fisheries and aquaculture in the CARICOM region’. The aim is to develop a strategy and action plan for integrating DRM, CCA and fisheries and aquaculture, with a ...
KWP 1808
... that harmonizes baseline developments and soft-links seven national and global models being either economy wide (CGE models) or energy system models. The analysis is based on a global greenhouse gas emission pathway that aims at a radiative forcing of 2.9 W/m2 in 2100 and with a policy regime based ...
... that harmonizes baseline developments and soft-links seven national and global models being either economy wide (CGE models) or energy system models. The analysis is based on a global greenhouse gas emission pathway that aims at a radiative forcing of 2.9 W/m2 in 2100 and with a policy regime based ...
The Kyoto Protocol - Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository
... already been linked to damaging climatic events including droughts, El Nifio, windstorms, and the wildfires that ravaged Yellowstone National Park in 1988.1' The greenhouse effect may severely impact human health, raising mortality due to infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and yellow ...
... already been linked to damaging climatic events including droughts, El Nifio, windstorms, and the wildfires that ravaged Yellowstone National Park in 1988.1' The greenhouse effect may severely impact human health, raising mortality due to infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and yellow ...
Plankton dynamics under different climatic conditions in space and
... regional patterns in warming are emerging: most of the Americas and all of Africa, Europe, the polar regions and Northern and Central Asia are likely to warm more than the global average. These projections suggest that the warming will be least in South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand and south ...
... regional patterns in warming are emerging: most of the Americas and all of Africa, Europe, the polar regions and Northern and Central Asia are likely to warm more than the global average. These projections suggest that the warming will be least in South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand and south ...
Australia`s Biodiversity in a changing climate
... Ecosystems of National Significance: The Australian Government has committed to a stronger focus on ecosystem protection, recognising the importance of conserving land/seascape scale ecological functions and processes. Without ecosystem scale conservation, species by species conservation will always ...
... Ecosystems of National Significance: The Australian Government has committed to a stronger focus on ecosystem protection, recognising the importance of conserving land/seascape scale ecological functions and processes. Without ecosystem scale conservation, species by species conservation will always ...
Loss and Damage: The Role of Ecosystem Services
... temperatures have warmed on average 0.85° C relative to pre-industrial temperatures (IPCC, 2014). Moreover, a recent report commissioned by the World Bank found increasing evidence that even with very ambitious mitigation measures, the Earth’s atmospheric system may already be committed to warming o ...
... temperatures have warmed on average 0.85° C relative to pre-industrial temperatures (IPCC, 2014). Moreover, a recent report commissioned by the World Bank found increasing evidence that even with very ambitious mitigation measures, the Earth’s atmospheric system may already be committed to warming o ...
Livestock and greenhouse gas emissions: The importance of getting
... counting GHG emissions in the world – are considered to come under Scope 1 and Scope 2 (that is, GHG emissions from elements owned or purchased by a livestock producer). However, our World Watch article included an assessment that Livestock’s Long Shadow dramatically undercounts Scope 1 GHG emission ...
... counting GHG emissions in the world – are considered to come under Scope 1 and Scope 2 (that is, GHG emissions from elements owned or purchased by a livestock producer). However, our World Watch article included an assessment that Livestock’s Long Shadow dramatically undercounts Scope 1 GHG emission ...
Experiences of host communities with carbon market projects
... “breaks new ground in international environmental law” (Streck, 2004: 298) because of its emphasis on the involvement of the private sector. On the contrary, it has been argued there is a need for a supervisory body as – unlike the public project cycle – the private contracting cycle, which includes ...
... “breaks new ground in international environmental law” (Streck, 2004: 298) because of its emphasis on the involvement of the private sector. On the contrary, it has been argued there is a need for a supervisory body as – unlike the public project cycle – the private contracting cycle, which includes ...
British Columbia
... increase by 30 to 60% by 2025, and updating power-generating infrastructure, both of which are already part of current planning and management measures. Small hydro and ‘run of river’ alternatives can increase capacity but are more vulnerable to variable river flows than are facilities with large sto ...
... increase by 30 to 60% by 2025, and updating power-generating infrastructure, both of which are already part of current planning and management measures. Small hydro and ‘run of river’ alternatives can increase capacity but are more vulnerable to variable river flows than are facilities with large sto ...
The Paris Agreement and Beyond: International Climate Change
... The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements hosted a research workshop at the Harvard Kennedy School on July 14-15, 2016, the purpose of which was to identify options for elaborating and implementing the Paris Agreement—and to identify policies and institutions that might complement or supplement the ...
... The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements hosted a research workshop at the Harvard Kennedy School on July 14-15, 2016, the purpose of which was to identify options for elaborating and implementing the Paris Agreement—and to identify policies and institutions that might complement or supplement the ...
SJmaintext
... species, but this review illustrates its benefit using birds as examples. Birds are one of the best-studied groups and a large number of studies have detected climate impacts on vital rates (i.e. life history traits, such as survival, maturation, or breeding, affecting changes in population size and ...
... species, but this review illustrates its benefit using birds as examples. Birds are one of the best-studied groups and a large number of studies have detected climate impacts on vital rates (i.e. life history traits, such as survival, maturation, or breeding, affecting changes in population size and ...
30 million tonnes in 2030 alone
... reduction that could be generated by adopting a lowcarbon fuel standard like British Columbia’s as a national policy. Our preliminary finding is that a Canadawide clean fuel standard could offer a very significant emission benefit, with potential reductions in the range of 30 million tonnes (Mt) in ...
... reduction that could be generated by adopting a lowcarbon fuel standard like British Columbia’s as a national policy. Our preliminary finding is that a Canadawide clean fuel standard could offer a very significant emission benefit, with potential reductions in the range of 30 million tonnes (Mt) in ...
Future Weather
... years showed that the coastal area has become wetter relative to inland areas. We investigated whether this trend is systematic, and whether we could expect similar changes in the regional precipitation differences in the future. Intense events of local precipitation have a large influence on societ ...
... years showed that the coastal area has become wetter relative to inland areas. We investigated whether this trend is systematic, and whether we could expect similar changes in the regional precipitation differences in the future. Intense events of local precipitation have a large influence on societ ...
a study commissioned by Sitra
... The 4°C degree scenario takes into account recent pledges by countries to limit emissions and improve energy efficiency, which help limit the long-term temperature rise to 4°C. However, it would require significant changes in policy and technologies compared with the 6°C degree scenario. And finally ...
... The 4°C degree scenario takes into account recent pledges by countries to limit emissions and improve energy efficiency, which help limit the long-term temperature rise to 4°C. However, it would require significant changes in policy and technologies compared with the 6°C degree scenario. And finally ...
the wmo voluntary observing ship programme
... irregularly, roughly every two to seven years and is linked to changes in tropical seasurface temperature patterns, with the eastern Pacific tending to be unusually warm during El Niño years. Around the globe, droughts, floods, the collapse of important fisheries and other unusual phenomena are ofte ...
... irregularly, roughly every two to seven years and is linked to changes in tropical seasurface temperature patterns, with the eastern Pacific tending to be unusually warm during El Niño years. Around the globe, droughts, floods, the collapse of important fisheries and other unusual phenomena are ofte ...
Climate Change Act 2017 - Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary
... of the people of Victoria that the international community has reached agreement to hold the global average temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1·5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The ...
... of the people of Victoria that the international community has reached agreement to hold the global average temperature increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1·5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The ...
Lesson 6 - Scientist in Residence Program
... a. respiration, decomposition, combustion. Note that all these processes are essentially the same, happening at different speed and facilitated by different catalysts. Basically it’s the reverse of photosynthesis: long chains of carbon are turned into CO2 and water, releasing energy. Interesting to ...
... a. respiration, decomposition, combustion. Note that all these processes are essentially the same, happening at different speed and facilitated by different catalysts. Basically it’s the reverse of photosynthesis: long chains of carbon are turned into CO2 and water, releasing energy. Interesting to ...
The Carbon the World Forgot - Boreal Songbird Initiative
... Industrial emissions of greenhouse gases are moving the world into an uncertain future where climate change will dominate environmental, political, and economic issues. Solutions to slow negative impacts of rapid and large changes are still possible, if we act swiftly and strategically on a global s ...
... Industrial emissions of greenhouse gases are moving the world into an uncertain future where climate change will dominate environmental, political, and economic issues. Solutions to slow negative impacts of rapid and large changes are still possible, if we act swiftly and strategically on a global s ...
Climate Change in the Caribbean and the Challenge of Adaptation
... temperature5 (since 1850). The total temperature increase between 1850–1899 and 2001–2005 reached 0.76°C. The temperature of the world’s oceans has also been rising, and mountain glaciers and snow cover have declined in both hemispheres. All these phenomena contribute to an average global sea level ...
... temperature5 (since 1850). The total temperature increase between 1850–1899 and 2001–2005 reached 0.76°C. The temperature of the world’s oceans has also been rising, and mountain glaciers and snow cover have declined in both hemispheres. All these phenomena contribute to an average global sea level ...
... To use accumulation rates of sediment as a proxy for erosion rates, obviously accumulation rates must be quantified. Yet, several obstacles make such quantification difficult. Geologists have a long tradition of measuring sedimentary sections, either from exposures in the field or from drill holes t ...
1 Alpine Treeline of Western North America - UNC
... follows snowmelt and may be most likely in moist microsites at treelines, such as areas with relatively late-lying snow, (e.g., Mellmann-Brown 2005, Resler et al. 2005, Maher and Germino 2006). Butler et al. (2004) associated seedling presence with micro-scale erosion and deposition of fine-grained ...
... follows snowmelt and may be most likely in moist microsites at treelines, such as areas with relatively late-lying snow, (e.g., Mellmann-Brown 2005, Resler et al. 2005, Maher and Germino 2006). Butler et al. (2004) associated seedling presence with micro-scale erosion and deposition of fine-grained ...
UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA
... currently affected each year by coastal flooding and that such figures will increase under all climate-change scenarios ([Nicholls, 2004]). The problems with coastal flooding will obviously be much more serious if certain potentially catastrophic events, whose probability is uncertain, were to happe ...
... currently affected each year by coastal flooding and that such figures will increase under all climate-change scenarios ([Nicholls, 2004]). The problems with coastal flooding will obviously be much more serious if certain potentially catastrophic events, whose probability is uncertain, were to happe ...
Ferruginous Hawk Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Alberta
... Alberta's climate has been changing rapidly in the recent past with mean annual temperature in the southern part of the province increasing by 0.3°C per decade over the past 30 years. The pace of change is expected to accelerate with temperatures being as much as 2.7°C warmer by the 2050s. The extra ...
... Alberta's climate has been changing rapidly in the recent past with mean annual temperature in the southern part of the province increasing by 0.3°C per decade over the past 30 years. The pace of change is expected to accelerate with temperatures being as much as 2.7°C warmer by the 2050s. The extra ...